What messages do young people get from media reporting on illegal drugs? Does it make them attracted to drugs, fear them, or just confused? A ground breaking Australian study has come up with some answers. News values (PDF)
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Druglink article 2010 – Fluid policy by Paul Hayes
The provision of methadone, if some politicians and newspapers are to be believed, is no better than handing out illegal drugs. Paul Hayes, Chief Executive of the National Treatment Agency, clarifies the changes afoot for the substitute drug Fluid policy (PDF)
Druglink article 2010 – End of an era? by Baroness Doreen Massey
Set up by the Labour government in 2001, the National Treatment Agency will be abolished in 2012. So what does this mean for the drug field? Baroness Doreen Massey, Chair of the NTA, maps out the road ahead. In the run up…
Druglink article 2010 – In the thick of it by Sam Hart
A controversial scheme that tackles parental drug abuse by parachuting key workers into family homes is proving successful. But the flagship Labour policy is under threat from dwindling resources. After a heavy night of drinking vodka and smoking spliffs, Jen finds it difficult to…
Druglink article 2010 – High tide by Andy McNicoll
Shetland’s remote but affluent island communities are facing up to the reality that, unlike the rest of Britain, rising numbers of young people are taking up heroin. Three years ago, the 22,000 members of Shetland’s close-knit community – who inhabit a string of 15…
Druglink article 2010 – Booze, bans and bite-size bags by Max Daly
The ban on mephedrone, the recession and Britain’s rising alcohol problems have all left their imprints on the UK drug market over the last year, according to Druglink Street Drug Trends 2010. Feedback from frontline drug services, police forces, drug action teams and…
Druglink article 2010 – An unchartered course by Jeremy Sare
Plans to introduce a temporary ban on new legal highs seem a logical step, but will navigate our drugs laws into unknown waters, claims Jeremy Sare An unchartered course (PDF)
Druglink obituary 2010 – Martin Plant
Professor Martin Plant, who died on 16th March 2010 aged 63, was a major contributor to our understanding of drug, alcohol and related problems. In a 40-year research career, his prodigious output of dozens of books and hundreds of scientific papers covered epidemiological and behavioural aspects of…
Druglink article 2010 – Small steps by Andrew Brown
While we have moved away from the now discredited shock tactics used to warn children away from drugs in the 1980s, the last decade has seen slow progress in developing effective drug education. Small steps (PDF)
Druglink article 2010 – Use your head by Peter McDermott
Drug users in Britain now have a bigger say in how their treatment system works than most other parts of the world. But, says Peter McDermott, we are in danger of letting a decade of progress slip through our hands if politicians restrict the paths to recovery.…